. ♪ we just want to celebrate all day and night singing a-yo ♪ >>> this morning on "today celebrates the holidays" we have the lower priced versions of the more expensive items that may be on your list for someone else. "today's" financial editor jean chatzky, nice to see. >> nice to see you too. only 15% of people haven't finished shopping. >> i haven't started. >> we've got it all here. >> i'm glad you're here. one thing that is big we've been hearing a lot about, tablets, the ipad mini gets a lot of attention these days, but it's a little bit expensive. >> $329 for the ipad mini. this is the kindle fire hd, and interestingly, when you look at the reviews they each have things in their favor, battery life for the kindle, apps for the ipad mini, you have apps made just for the ipad so you're not taking iphone apps and stretching them. the ipad is a little lighter. >> let's fire this one up. i don't know if we can. i don't know where the button is. oh, well. i should know. we got one of these for my mom last year. anyway, so you would say in this instance -- >> i would say in this in